Loom-shuttle.



N. CARON.

LOOM SHUTTLE. I APPLICATION FILED MAYZZ, 1914.

1 178,382. Patented Apr. 4, 1916.

awvawboz i citizen of the United States,

LOOM-SI-IUTTLE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 4, 1916.

Application filed May 22, 1914. Serial No. 840,289.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, NAPOLEON GAnoN, a residing at Nashua, in the county of Hillsboro and State of New Hampshire, have invented new and useful Improvements in Loom-Shuttles, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to loom shuttles and one of the principal objectsof the invention is to provide a novel, simply and cheaply constructed bobbin holder which may be adapted to the ordinary shuttle.

Another object of the invention is to improve upon the type of threading device shown in my Patent #976,632 and to improve upon the type of bobbin carrier shown in the Patent #844,318 granted to Boisonneault et al.

Further objects of the invention will appear as the following description is read in connection with the accompanying drawing, which forms a part of this application, and in which 7 Figure 1 is a top plan view. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view with parts of the shuttle broken away. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the bobbin holder. Fig. 4 is a similar view of the retaining spring. Fig. 5 is a perspective view of the thread guides. Fig. 6 is a similar view of the opposite thread guide.

Referring more particularly to the drawing, 1 represents an ordinary shuttle body provided with a longitudinal slot to receive the bobbin indicated in dotted lines. One head of the carrier is provided with a recess 2 and an enlarged recess 3 adjoining and communicating with the recess 2 for a purpose to be here described. The recess 2 receives the looped terminal 4 of the bobbin carrier which is constructed of a single piece of metal bent back upon itself to produce the loop and to produce the parallel head engaging legs 5 which engage upon opposite sides of the head of the bobbin as shown. The legs are offset with relation to the loop, as shown, so that their lower edges seat within the recess 3 and the offset roduces shoulders 6 which abut against the vertical wall of the recess 3, as shown in Fig. 2.

To retain the bobbin holder in place so as to permit slight upward movement of the legs I secure to the head of the shuttle within the races 7 a spring clip 8 having a forwardly and downwardly bent end which terminates in an inwardly turned hook 9 engaging the bobbin holder between the legs thereof, as shown in Fig. 2. This spring is held in position by the ordinary clip screw 10 which passes through the loop 4 as shown. The'legs of the holder are sufficiently resilient to spread apart to permit the insertion of the head and are provided with transverse grooves 11 arranged to engage the grooves in the head of the bobbin, as will be readily understood. At the opposite end of the shuttle the outer face thereof has secured thereto within a recess 12 the type of thread guide 13 shown in my patent above mentioned. This thread guide communicates with a horizontal slot 14 which in turn communicates with the vertical, diagonal slot 15 communicating with the thread guide 16 constructed similarly to the thread guide 5 shown in my patent before mentioned with the exception that the horizontal portion of said guide is provided with a diagonally extending finger 17 arranged to prevent the thread from becoming disconnected from the thread guide 16 should it accidentally be drawn out of the thread guide 13 in the retrograde movement of the shuttle and work into the vertical slot 15 in the forward movement of the shuttle. With the thread guide shown in Patent #97 6,632 such action would result in the thread becoming disengaged from the guide 16 and its possible breakage upon the next reciprocation of the shuttle by the picker sticks.

What is claimed is The combination with a shuttle having horizontal and vertically disposed slots communicating with a diagonally disposed slot, the latter opening at the top on one side of the shuttle, of a thread guide secured to one side of the shuttle and overlying and communicating with said horizontal slot, a substantially L-shaped thread guide arranged within the throat of the shuttle and having its horizontal flange portion dis posed at one. side of said diagonal slot, a finger projecting diagonally from one cornet of said flange and overlying said di- In testimony whereof I afiix my signature agonal slot, for holding the thread from disin presence of two Witnesses. engagement Within the latter mentioned T slot, and said finger being spaced from the LAPOLEON GABON body portion of said shuttle to permit the Witnesses: thread to be passed thereunder during the PEARL WATSON,

initial threading of the device. YVONNE A. PENO.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents leach, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, I). C. 

